Eleanor Neale

So abruptly, she was gone and never coming back.

And the thought of her last hours on this earth replay in so many people's minds, even now, years out, including mine.

Wayne Cousins is a monster of epic proportions.

He had a burning desire to harm and murder a vulnerable woman that night.

And what's worse, this man had been reported and identified in relation to an indecent exposure case just a few days prior that the police failed to follow up on.

Had they done so properly, Cousins would have probably lost his job.

Therefore, he would have lost his warrant card, he wouldn't have had his handcuffs, and therefore, he would have been unable to trick and lure Sarah Everard into his car and to her death.

But instead, he used that exact warrant card and that exact authority that he was allowed to maintain in order to carry out the rape and murder of an innocent woman.

But before I get too irate, let's round off the timeline and discuss what Wayne got up to in the hours and days after committing such a heinous crime.

At 2.34am, he pulled into a petrol station and bought a bottle of water,

a lucas aid and an apple and at this point are we to assume that sarah's body was in his car he just parked it and left it outside while he ran into the shop i'm not sure where else it would have been at that moment if not in his car because following the visit to the petrol station

He was driving to that plot of land that he owned, where Sarah's body was eventually recovered from.

It's believed at this stage that he hid Sarah's body on that piece of land.

It was actually a hotspot for people fly tipping, which is basically just dumping rubbish that's too big for them to dispose of.

So there was a load of just shit around and it's believed that he had found an industrial fridge to hide her in or under, at least for the next few hours while he drove back home and tried to upkeep his normal family life without suspicion.

By 7.30 a.m., he drove back to where he had left that rental car the night before and he switched again.

Now he was gonna take the car back to the shop.

In total, he had racked up around 300 miles on that thing in less than 24 hours.

And then just before he returned home to his family once again, he stopped in a Costa and bought a hot chocolate and a sweet treat for himself.

The fact that he can eat at all after what he had just done is one thing, but the fact that this is a hot chocolate and a Bakewell tart